Origins 5

Lee Na had run with all might in the forest. Now she was alone. Her father, mother and brother had all been killed.

"Let us go back to the Minister and report that we have accomplished the mission..."

"but the other kid..., we couldn't get him"

"idiot! what can a kid as little as that do?, he will be so tired by the time he runs out of this forest that he might even die. Do we still need to waste our time on him?"

"but what if they demand to see their bodies?"

"wait... is that kid even Minister Lee's daughter?, that was clearly a boy!. What has happened?"

"the poster clearly said a woman, a boy and a girl... or are there two boys instead?"

"that shouldn't be our concern. Listen. We will go back now and inform the Minister that we have killed them. We will show them the body of this boy. When he asks of the other child, we will say we chased her to a cliff where she fell to her death. We even shot her before the fall. Surely, no one could survive that. We will say we have gone down the shore to find her body but it must've been washed away by the tides. With that, our mission is complete and we are now rich".

"okay, that is what we will do" if the other hunter had doubts, he kept them all to himself.

"now let us go..."

With that, they had returned to Minister Choi and relayed the story according to what they had planned. It had sounded so believable that the evil minister suspected nothing.

"thank you my men... you shall be rewarded as promised"

"you are very generous my Lord"

With a nod of his head, a group of his personal soldiers had surrounded the hunters.

"My Lord, what is the meaning behind this?, we are here for the reward".

"Hahahaha... and you shall get it. Surely, you didn't think you would go scot-free after killing the King's relatives did you?, kill them..."

The hunters had never imagined they would meet their deaths instead of the generous rewards they had been promised.

And so, everyone connected with the case of Minister Lee Chu, the King's brother and highest ranked official in the Kingdom had been silenced.

The Little kid had run out of all possible strength by now. She had fainted upon reaching a tattered hut deep in the forest.